KWME and KDFM The station signed on the air on December 10, 1959. Its original call sign was KWME. It was owned by Walnut Creek Broadcasters with studios on
Mount Diablo Boulevard. The call letters were changed to KDFM in 1964. It played automated
beautiful music, with quarter hour sweeps of soft instrumentals with limited talk and commercials.
KINQ, KKIS-FM and KZWC In 1983, the station changed its call letters to KINQ and switched its former
easy listening format to
adult contemporary. In 1986, the playlist stepped up the tempo, becoming
hot AC, right after it switched its call sign to KKIS-FM to match its sister station, KKIS 990 AM (now
KATD). During the fall of 1991, the station's hot AC format eased back to a mainstream adult contemporary sound, and its AM sister stationbegan simulcasting KKIS-FM. On October 31, 1994, KKIS-AM-FM dropped the AC format. Both stations flipped to a Spanish-language
talk radio format, as part of The "Z Spanish Network". Its call letters changed to KZWC.
KFJO, KABL-FM and KKDV Between 1998 and 2004, 92.1 was KFJO, simulcasting
KSJO (92.3 FM) from
San Jose, as 92 KSJO; the network also included
KXJO (92.7 FM) in
Alameda and
KMJO (92.7 FM) in
Marina. The station briefly spent time as KABL-FM, a simulcast of long-time Bay Area
adult standards station KABL (960 AM, now
KNEW), before becoming adult contemporary station KKDV in 2005. KKDV flipped to
country music on April 6, 2022, as "Bay Country" KKDV. It is a simulcast of
KBAY (94.5 FM), which is based in the
South Bay. From July 28 through July 30, 2023, KKDV and KBAY played all-
Taylor Swift songs for
The Eras Tour. ==See also==